HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 135

55th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO REQUIRE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP A NEW AT-RISK INDEX.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2022 to work with outside experts to develop a new at-risk index in the public school funding formula that includes the use of inferential statistics to create an index for each public school using demographic and performance data from the public education system for subgroups associated with the district court ruling in the Martinez and Yazzie vs. State of New Mexico lawsuit. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2022 shall revert to the general fund.

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